Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1887-01-15
FALLS TRIBUNE.
MELANGE.

MEIaNUE.
Washington Letter: Mr.. Toole is now
e~ndeavoring to secure the insertion Of an
amendment to one of the appropriation
bills, by the senate committee on appro-
priations, Of $4,000 for the survey of the
Northern Pacific railroad lands in Mon
tana. Gen. Sparks refuses to make these
surveys or the ground that the govern
ment may forfeit the lands in question.
Whether the lands are forfeited or not it
IS important hat they should be surveyed.
If not forfeited they should be surveyed
that the territory may tax the lands and
thus secure a large addition to the taxable
property. If forfeited, the surveys will
still Of use to actual settlers. Surveys
could readily be made in M year which
would, under existing laws, add $10,O00,-
900 to the taxable property of the terrific
~. This would lift about one-sixth of the
burden Of taxation from the present prop
erty holders.
An item of $12, 800 in the river and har-
Dor appropriation bill is for the improve
ment of the Yellowstone river between
Glendive and the Missouri. No item ap-
pears for the improvement Of the upper
Missouri.
The Drum Lummon mine is a concern
Of which Montana and the whole mining
industry may well feel proud. 1t is the
greatest property now within the knowl-
edge of miners, and judging of the future
by the record of the past, there is reason
to believe that it will reach a higher niche
in the temple Of industrial fame. The
Granite Mountain is only second to it, and
with its new mill will make its monthly
records crowd closely Upon those Of the
Drum Lummon. And beth of these great
mines are in ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
A New Zealand chief claimed a piece
of land on which he had settled, on the
ground that he had eaten the preceding
owner. No contest.
They impose strange sentences in Eng
land sometimes. Here are a few samples:
A man for stealing a hand-cart, five years
penal servitude; and another man for as
saulting a fellow workman and knocking |
his eye out, forty shillings' fine! A man
for begging bread when he was unable to
obtain employment, ten days imprison-
ment at hard labor; and another, for going
to the Workhouse rather than accept en-
ployment at three shillings a day, amonth's
seryitude and twelve strokes Of cat-o'-nine-
tall! Again, a man for stealing a cotton
shirt, five years penal servitude; and an
other man for criminal assault upon two
infants, three months Imprisonment. JUS
tice in England is not blind. She squints.
Salt Lake Herald: A robbery which
for ~neatness, dizziness acd general mysteri-
business, exceeds anything of the kind ever
known in this region, and which has thus
far puzzled detectives and every one else
who have looked into the case-occurred
on the Pacific Express company's route
about three weeks ago. Any intelligence
concerning the affair has been kept quiet
in the hope that some clue would be light
ed on, but up to this time every one seems
to be as much in the dark as he was five
minutes after the robbery was discovered.
On the 18th Of December, the Desert Ma
tional received an order from the First Ma
tional bank of Dillon, Montana, for So. 0
On the same day that amount of gold, in
closed in the usual canvas sack, duly seal
ed and vita a tag attached bearing the adj
dress, First National Bank, Dillon, Mon
tana." the value of the contents also being
written upon it, was forwarded per the
Pacific Express company, which duly re-
eeipted to the bank for the package. The
sack Of coin reached Ogden all safe and
the Utah Central messenger took his re-
eeipt for it in the usual manner. There It
disappeared as suddenly as though the
earth under it had opened and swallowed
it up The first intelligence that it was
missing came from the express company, L